Gah! I forgot about our usual weekly discussion yet again! You can thank ’790′ for reminding me to post this week.
As usual, the floor is yours…
May 28, 2008 by Vic Holtreman
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Hey did anyone catch Shia LeBeof last night on The Jimmy Kimmel show?
He was halarious and told some funny stories about working alongside Harrison Ford.
He said (nobody) calls him Harry, it Harrison on the set. He talked about how a few times Harry would screw with him on set. One time Harrison gave him a prop fish and told Shia that its a mystical fish and that he really needs to sell this to the camera. After about the 3rd take and many laughs, Speilberg and Ford would say “gheesh kid were only joking” Shia said “great, cause the fish wasn’t working for me’.
He said that the first day of shooting they shot the cycle chase thru the campus. He said that Harrison was pretty tough, and that he took some hard falls that day.
Kimmel asked Shia about him getting a degree in colledge, and Shia said “yeah I was close to getting my degree and I was faced with a choice, go on with school or work on set with Harrison Ford, I didn’t get that degree”.
Jimmey also asked him what he thinks about being considered a huge star and Shia said, “yeah its great until I go online and read that I suck and people hate me”. Jimmy asked if he goes online alot and Shia said “yeah I do, I’m a big geek” he mentioned IMDB, as one site he visits.
(I would imagine the interview is up on youtube if so, check it out its very good!). Don’t blame me if I misquoted him on a few things.
(It was late).
(Also a few reviews), I watched Rambo yesterday and Wow!! Sly really made a visually stunning film.
I have to respect him for shooting it on location, and the vfx looked very real.
Also on DVD, (Gunner Palace), was an amazing trip thru the lives of an Army battalion stationed in Iraq. Amazing documentary. The film has some real annoying rap music hear and there but its a must see.
Also one last thing that I didn’t pay enough attention to years ago. I was in the dvd store the other day and I noticed the “Empire of the Sun” dvd. I watched this movie 2 times when I was in high school and just thought it was brillaint and amazing.
As I’m reading the credits I realized that Christian Bale played the little kid in the film. This was Bales first film!! If you havnt seen this film drop the mouse, and go get it on dvd its amazing!!!!! And Bale does an amazing job. He’s the main character, this isn’t some bit role. Btw, Empire of the Sun, is a Speilberg film!
Cheers!
790
I had a bunch of dvd’s crash down on me tonight as I was going thru some notes.
I found a classic that I think readers of this site might really enjoy, Steven the Git your one of them.
Its called “Spaceman” its a very well written independant film that came out in 2001.
Here’s the back print)
“Abducted by aliens as a child, Spaceman returns to Earth reprogrammed as an unstoppable warrior-drone! Desperate to fit in, he finds work as a Mob hitman, but becomes a target when his outer-space code of honor botches a major hit. A sexy young women uncovers Spaceman’s human side, and he is haunted by memories of his forgotten childhood on Earth.
With Mafia assassins and corrupt FBI agents on his tail, he embarks on a quest to find his long-lost mother”.
The film is awesome, funny and very well written. If Hollywood wants to make remakes they should take a look at this film and reboot it.
Its a cult classic dark sci-fi comedy that’s just really good.
Tough to find check
http://www.palmpictures.com
Hey I have a question that I hope some old school sci-fi/horror film buff can help me with……?
I remember watching a movie on tv back in the 70′s but I can’t remember what’s its called. It was in color and looked like a 70′s film.
The parts I remember were scenes of a group of people that were in a RV out in the desert, and they were driving away from “rocks” that were chasing them. (I think ufos were controlling them?) The effect of the boulders coming at them was very bizzare looking, and the sound effects were freaky.
Anyone have any clues?
hey guys do you think that ironman can surpass the 700 million mark just like transformers and in my opinion that indiana jones can go to 800 million worlwide
Is this an open discussion or the 790 show!
I’m sold on that movie already.
As for Bale, yes, he was a child star and looked like he was going places. He was in Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V, playing the kid in that. Not sure what happened, but he has come back big time. I think American Psycho might be the first thing he did in ages.
I just had a look at his wiki. Seems he has been doing stuff the whole time, but not getting noticed until he did Psycho.
Has any one noticed that the Abanomation in the Hulk movie looks a lot just like Doomsday.
PS
If Hulk fights Doomsday who would win?
I would say that the planet will be distroyed and non of them would loose. Because Doomsday cant die he would come back probably stronger.
And Hulk has the power that the angry he gets the stronger and biger he gets.
Boulders chasing people? I’m a child of the 70′s but I don’t recall anything like that…
And regarding Iron Man passing $700MM worldwide: absolutely. It’s really holding strong, having dropped off only about 35% each weekend which is amazing. Spider-Man 3, after it’s initial opening dropped about 50% every new weekend that went by. Iron Man is already at $488MM worldwide as of LAST weekend.
Vic
Vic,
Spider Man 3 had a much weaker story then Iron
Man .
Vic,
Spider Man 3 had a much weaker story then Iron
Man .
sorry about that double post ,
the first 30 minutes of Spider man 3 were dominated by special effects ,
the origin of the sandman and the coming of the symbiote .
and I think people like character oriented stories over special effects .
Just my opinion of course.
Yeah Vic,it was the weirdest thing, this family was out on a flat desert valley in there RV and they see this spec on the horizon and one of the guys whips out his binoculars and you see this boulder the size of a car rolling right at them (end over end) at about 20 mph.
Out of all sides, boulders start appearing and there all headed right at them. Of course the RV won’t start.
(The film had kinda a Damnation Alley feel to it).
ANYWAY,++++++++++++++++++++++
Hey Screen Rant readers anyone live in LA (Westwood area) and want to see the Premire of Hellboy 2, and or Wanted?
Also a special 20 min screening of the new X-Files film with a Q&A from Chris Carter!!!!
Where is all this happening?
At the 2008 L.A. Film Festival.(That’s where) Goto:
http://www.lafilmfest.com
Or call toll free,
866 345 6337
Ps, Tickets are relativly cheap.
Boulders chasing people??? That’s a new one!!
I remember these freaky trees chasing people, and the people had to throw these red bottles at the trees to set them on fire. I totally forgot what movie it was until a friend told me that it was called “Navy vs the Night Monsters”, a.k.a. “The Night Stalkers”. That was a cool movie and for a kid, scary as hell.
I recall this other movie that no one else seemed to remember. It’s almost like the Omega Man, except that it’s not really the end of the world IIRC. Just that this guy was aware of some evil mole people living underground and decided to kill them or something, and he goes hunting for them at night while riding a white buggy with a rifle that has a red spotlight affixed to it. Those creatures are afraid of light of any kind, including this red flashlight, so the hero would shine it on them before shooting them up. The movie ends with him mortally wounded and crashing his car at a fountain in the middle of a town square or something, and the scene gradually fades to day break and we see the water in the fountain has all turned to red with the hero dead in the water, and those night creatures are nowhere to be seen.
Jae Senn, that does sound alot like the ending for Omega Man,,? But no red lights.hmm
Remember that film “Devils Rain”. I think Shatner is in that one and also Travolta…
These cultists looked just like the freaks in omega man.
Hahaa. And I think there leader was Ernest Borgnine?
Pure 70′s camp!
Any news kicking on “The Grays” or “Babylon A.D.” ???
Read where “Enders Game” has been picked up by Marvel for comic book treatment.
790,
Yeah I know it sounds like Omega Man! But it isn’t. Even my friends can’t figure out any other movie that had that premise besides Omega Man. However, I’ve seen the re-runs on TV about 2 or 3 times already, but I guess I was too young then to know what the title was.
I just found out the title of another movie that stuck to my mind for all these years – Silent Running. I can always remember the scene when he knocked down one of the robots, and had to repair it while the other robot looked on. The two robots were so.. sentient.. like children or puppies. I remember watching it on TV when I was a kid, maybe around 4 or 5 years old. I cried when I saw the robot flinching during repairs, like an injured puppy.
“Roswell” was a good TV movie, based on the accounts of Jesse Marcel. With physicist and early civilian UFO investigator Stan Friedman openly calling for further declassification of the MJ-12 documents and exposure of the US government’s knowledge of extra-terrestrial visitations, there’s plenty of material in there (the Majestic documents) for movies about the “unknown lenticular aerodyne” crash before Roswell in 1941 that led to advances in nuclear physics, or the crash of three airships in New Mexico a year after Roswell that provided a mother lode of test materials – working aerodynes that were later tested and reverse-engineered in Project White Shot and Project Snowbird, and 16 dead EBEs for autopsy.
If you can remember who the actor is that’s in the film you could track down what film it is?
Ah Silent Running, yes I remember that film, Bruce Dern 1975 I believe.
Huey, Duey and Louie, were the names of the robots.
Yeah that was one of the only Sci-Fi films to even come out that year. Back then we didn’t get a blockbuster every friday. If you ask me those 3 robots inspired the creators of WALL-E.
And yes Roswell had a good run. The (teenage angst) level was a little high for me.
A far superior show was “Dark Skies”.
This show went into the Roswell incident face first and never looked back.
(It was quickly canceled when it started to build a loyal fanbase). Odd,,,, (S)
(S) is my mark of Sarcasum
Also Jae Senn, I’m am aware of the ufo crashes you mentioned.
I have a few friends in the service and one of them one time told me (after he got out) that he was offered a chance to join a unit that had no name just a number. He later found out after turning it down that it was a group that deals with ET recovery.
And people had a prob with Indy 4,(lol).
Hey “So You Think You Can Dance” is on!!! Weeee.
old man, I haven’t been following Babylon as closely as I could be. I’ll look at getting some updates.
Also, I’ll be doing a follow up on the Plan 9 story as I’ve exchanged some emails with the writer of the film.
Vic
{{If you ask me those 3 robots inspired the creators of WALL-E.}}
Nicey Nice 790, I want to congratulate you for posting comments about Pixar that didn’t include the words @#&&#, +>#*~, or ?!#%#%º|!
Well you couldn’t see me as I was typing it.
Jae Senn have to apolgize for reading your post so quickly the first time that I thought you were referencing Roswell the WB show. Sorry about that…!
Silent Running is an excellent movie and quite sad at the end, well, I felt sad for the robots on their own in deep space. aaahhh
Also Dark Skies was really good. Shame how that went.
Hey Vic, have you heard anything else about Day the Earth Stood Still? I’m really looking forward to seeing it and would like some type of update.
BTW, I saw the A&E movie Andromeda Strain. While it did have it’s moments, the movie was just too far fetched for me; liked the original movie better.
Well after Fox Legal threatened me over the last post I wrote I have more than half a mind to tell them to drop dead and not give that movie ANY coverage whatsoever.
Vic
Fox threatened you because of a posting about Andromed Strain? OMG!!!
No, no… sorry I wasn’t clear. It was the post I wrote about “Day the Earth Stood Still.”
Vic
Vic,
you could reserve coverage
until you either hear from friends who have seen it or until you have seen it yourself.
I saw an ad forHancock last night.
It said the film was not yet rated.
could they be trying to cut it to a PG rating?
To quote Will Smith: Aw… hell no.
They’re going for a solid, and no doubt higher-end PG-13 on this one.
There wouldn’t be anything left of the film if they tried to drop it to PG – it’s just not a PG story.
It’s pretty common to see that in commercials up to about a month before the release date, doesn’t mean anything special or sinister. Final cut just hadn’t been rated at the time the commercial goes on air.
Vic